When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn't realize at the time was that Johnson, who ...
The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local ...
Right now, scores of Americans are paying for the privilege of being under probation or parole supervision — and many of them are at the risk of being further entrenched in the justice system and even ...
Vincent Schiraldi is former commissioner of the New York City Departments of Probation and Correction and the author of “Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom.” ...
Thousands of Missourians are currently on probation and parole, and while the two terms are often used together, they affect a person’s life in completely different ways. Mary Beth Lammey, the policy ...
How AI-driven tools such as Q2i’s PARCA helps probation and parole agencies improve engagement, reduce violations, and ...
On Sept. 17, 2021, when I was running the notorious Rikers Island jails, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Less Is More act into law, reducing parole revocations for non-criminal, technical violations.
It has been well documented by now that there are more people in prison in the United States than in any other country in the world. But that oft-cited statistic — that the United States is home to ...